An Experimental Life

If we stopped now, any and all content on your site would show up in your view, so we're going to add some filters. In the far right column, click on the plus sign next to Filters.

In the scrollable list under where it says, "Add filters," scroll down and click the checkboxes beside "Node: Published," and "Taxonomy: Term." Click "Add."

Click the "Yes" radio button that appears below and click update again.

In the settings controls that now appear, click the radio button for "is one of," and update. Next, settings for Vocabulary will appear. Select "Comic," and "Autocomplete." Click Update.

In the next set of options that appear, select "is one of," and type in the term you set in that vocabulary in the field to the right. Click Update.

Now we're going to rearrange the filters we just set. The reason? Every node filtered slows down your site just a tiny bit, so instead of having Drupal check for every published node and then for comics within that set, we want it to look for comics first, and then which ones are published. Scroll back up to the right colums where it says, "Filters," again. Click the button with the up and down arrows.

Below, where your filters appear, use the handles to rearrange the filters so that Taxonomy is first, and hit Update.

Now we need to tell Drupal how we want the comic pages sorted. The default would be by the order in which you enter them, but there will almost certainly come a day when you'll upload some out of order, or miss one and have to go back. This is what we created that comic order field for earlier. Click the plus sign beside "Sort criteria," in the far right column.

We are only going to set one criterion. In the "Groups," dropdown, , select, "Content: Comic for (field_comic_for)
Text - Appears in: Comic page." Click Add. In the radio buttons that appear now, click "Descending" for order and update again.

Just to get an idea of whether everything is set right before you hit save, scroll down to "Live Preview," further down the page. Select the name of the page display you've been working on and hit the "Preview" button.

You're done with the Views page for now--We'll revisit it later. Go to admin >> site configuration >> site information, and at the bottom of the page, change the field, "front page," to the path for your new view.

Now it's time to set up your actual navigation.